HOSTAGE CHESS RECORDS

(Games 1, 2 and 3 were published in David Pritchard's article in
"Variant Chess", Summer 1999)

[Note: Hostage Chess is an immensely rich game, and techniques for
playing it are still in a very early stage of development. The
games given here must be considered very poor by comparison with
what experts of the future will produce. Please send records of any
games which you think particularly good to Prof. John Leslie, Dept.
of Philosophy, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1,
Canada]

Notation: Remember,"(Q-N)N*g5" means that an imprisoned queen is
released and a knight rescued, the knight then at once dropping on
g5. And released men go to airfields without this having to be
shown by the notation.

Pawn moves are not marked "P", so that "exg5" is written
instead of "Pxe5" when a pawn on the e-file captures a man on g5,
and "g5" is written instead of "Pg5" when a pawn moves straight
forward to square g5. Similarly, "*g5" means that a pawn from an
airfield drops on g5. "(N-P)*g5" means that an imprisoned knight is
released and a pawn rescued, the pawn at once dropping on g5.